སེ

Kurtöp

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sé]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Bodish *si, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sij. Cognates include Dzongkha ཤི (shi) and Tibetan འཆི ('chi).

Verb

སེ (se)

  1. (intransitive) to die

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Tibetan སྲས (sras).

Noun

སེ (se)

  1. prince
  2. (honorific) son
Synonyms
  • (son): (low register) བོ (bo)

References

  • G. Hyslop; K. Tshering; K. Lhendrup; P. Chhophyel (2016), Kurtöp-English-Dzongkha dictionary (draft), page 225
  • Gwendolyn Hyslop (2017), A grammar of Kurtöp, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 174
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